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USC specialty rate?
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If you ask USC they'll say "50% of our class went to specialty programs"
How many are GPRs and AEGDs? They wouldn't tell me. But I would still believe USC has a solid reputation and gets there students in. Afterall, there is plenty of boards study time!
As I'm sure someone after me will explain, you can't really compare the amount or % of students from a dental school that specialize. A lot of people go to schools like UCLA or harvard because they know they want to specialize.
How many people specialize is not usually indicative of hard it is to get into a residency from that school. It largely has to do with how much time and effort you put into it. That being said, (I don't have #s) USC said at the interview that their specialty acceptance rates were pretty good (but of course, what school wouldn't say that?)
How many people specialize is not usually indicative of hard it is to get into a residency from that school. It largely has to do with how much time and effort you put into it. That being said, (I don't have #s) USC said at the interview that their specialty acceptance rates were pretty good (but of course, what school wouldn't say that?)
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It's probably 50% of students going on to post grad residencies. I hate it when schools try to use that as the number when asked about specialty rate (Heard an administrator here doing the same this week).
The only information that could possibly be worthwhile is the # of students who got into endo, pedo, ortho and OMFS (which I declare is now called the EPOO statistic), and even then it only really means something if you know the number of students that applied. There's no school in the nation that's going to make it significantly harder for you to specialize, and you're going to have to work your butt off no matter where you go.
The only information that could possibly be worthwhile is the # of students who got into endo, pedo, ortho and OMFS (which I declare is now called the EPOO statistic), and even then it only really means something if you know the number of students that applied. There's no school in the nation that's going to make it significantly harder for you to specialize, and you're going to have to work your butt off no matter where you go.
